In a presentation at the 2016 Concordia Summit, Mr. Alexander Nix discusses the power of big data in global elections. Cambridge Analytica’s revolutionary approach to audience targeting, data modeling, and psychographic profiling has made them a leader in behavioral microtargeting for election processes around the world.
A conceptual view of how augmented reality may be used in the future. Although the video depicts the user with a smartphone, in the future it is more likely that the user will be wearing some form of augmented reality eyewear. Once refined and adapted, augmented reality will play a key role in the way […]
Containers, cloud platformen, Service Discovery en Continuous Delivery zijn technologieën die zich momenteel razendsnel ontwikkelen. We passen allemaal al jaren Continuous Integration gecombineerd met unittesten toe in onze projecten. In deze sessie geeft Quintor haar visie hoe we Continuous Integration de komende jaren zien evolueren naar een Continuous Delivery omgeving op Web-scale formaat, gebruikmakend van […]
Over the 20th century, the development of automated machinery has propelled modern industry and manufacturing into new heights of productivity. However, the cost of this technological advancement has been the displacement of millions of blue collar jobs across the world. In contrast, white-collar labour has always been regarded as safe from the kind of automation […]
Having earned a bachelor in physics and a master in software engineering, my objective for this session is to deliver a complete presentation to what quantum computing is all about, get you excited on the topic and provide a starting point for exploring Java quantum programming. Quantum computing promises exponentially faster computation by leveraging the […]
We all love scaffolders like Spring Boot Initialzr. It creates a brand new app with all the latest versions of the libraries we need to get going, enabling us to build awesome applications quickly. But after creating our initial application who is responsible for the dependency management and what happens over time when new features […]
Join Spring developer advocate Josh Long (@starbuxman) for a guided tour to a ton of the features, patterns and principles that support you when building productions-optimized cloud native Java applications. Bio Josh: Josh (@starbuxman) has been the first Spring Developer Advocate since 2010. Josh is a Java Champion, author of 6 books (including O’Reilly’s “Cloud […]
This session builds on the principles discussed in the keynote and delves deeper into the hierarchy of performance bottlenecks in Java applications. We will address more complex examples of performance degradation in various systems such as frameworks, databases, and concurrency management. The focus is on the use of diagnostic tools and profiling techniques. These tools […]
There’s no better way to understand container security than seeing some live hacking! This session introduces the state of docker security by reviewing vulnerabilities in Docker images and their impact on applications and demonstrates via hands-on live hacking. This session further provides the audience with security best practices when building docker container images, and each […]